Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. The Role of Precedent in Constitutional Adjudication: An Introspection / David L. Shapiro
Chapter 2. A Constitutional Significance for Precedent : Originalism, Stare Decisis, and Property Rights / Polly J. Price
Chapter 3. What is Legal Doctrine? / Emerson H. Tiller and Frank B. Cross
Chapter 4. Trumping Precedent with Original Meaning : Not as Radical as it Sounds / Randy E. Barnett
Chapter 5. Our Law, Their Law, History, and The Citation of Foreign Law / David J. Seipp
Chapter 6. The Application of Community Precedent and the Acte Clair by the Hoge Road. A Case Study in the Field of Estblishment and Services / Herman Van Harten
Chapter 7. The Supreme Court, Stare Decisis,a nd the Role of Judcial Deference in Patent Claim Construction Appeals / David Krinsky
Chapter 8. The Power of Precedent : Will American Practice Change the Norms International Humanitarian Law / Matthew A. Evangelista
List of Cases
Index